Tag: dcs
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Cloud gamers OnLive on working with Dell DCS
In my last entry I talked about how Steve Perlman, CEO and founder of OnLive joined the recent press round table we had in New York. OnLive is a cloud-based gaming company that launched earlier this year and whose servers were custom built by Dell’s Data Center Solution (DCS) group. To give you a bit…
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El Reg love: “Dell’s DCS is a big shiny server star”
Timothy Prickett Morgan of everyone’s favorite vulture-branded media site The Register attended a round table discussion we held a few weeks ago in New York. His piece from that event, which was focused around the cloud, was posted yesterday. You should check out the whole article but here are some snippets to whet your appetite:…
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Welcome the uber-dense AMD-based Cloud/ HPC machine
The last couple of Dell Data Center Solutions offerings I’ve talked about, Viking and MDC, have been from the custom side of the house. Both of these solutions are targeted specifically at a few select large customers. The subject of today’s post however, the PowerEdge C6105 server, is available to anyone running a scaled out…
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Enter the Viking: Light Weight server for Hosting and Web 2.0
Over the last few years, we have been working with some of the world’s biggest hyperscale data center operators, folks who are deploying thousands, to tens of thousands of servers at a time. Within this select group, the theme that keeps coming up over and over is uber-efficiency. The customers that we’ve been working with…
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Dell’s Modular Data Center — Hello World
Last week at VMworld, Dell held a Super session where we debuted a video walking through our Modular Data Center (MDC). The group that I belong to, Data Center Solutions (DCS), created the MDC as a custom solution addressing the specific needs of a few of our big strategic customers. (As background, the DCS group…
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Deep dive tour(s) of the PowerEdge C410x
In my last entry I talked about the wild and wacky world of GPGPUs and provided an overview of the PowerEdge C410x expansion chassis that we announced today. For those of you who want to go deeper and see how to set up and install this 3U wonder you’ll want to take a look at…
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Say hello to my little friend — packing up to 16 GPGPUs
While the name GPGPU, which stands for General-purpose computing on graphics processing units, doesn’t flow lyrically off the tongue, it’s an extremely powerful concept. What’s the big idea? The idea behind this sexy five letter acronym is to take a graphical process unit (GPU) and expand its use beyond graphics. Through the “simple” addition of programmable…
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Cool Article on the Dell/Azure announcement
Monday, as part of Microsoft’s big Azure announcement, we announced that we would be both building an Azure appliance, enabling customers to build their own public or private clouds, as well as developing an Azure public cloud at Dell that our customers can use to develop and deploy next generation services on. There has been…
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Chocolate covered servers?
There was a great article about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group that came out a couple of weeks ago. The article, entitled “Willy Wonka and the Dell Factory,” starts out If Dell’s cloud server lab is a candy shop for geeks, littered with components and exotic system designs, then Jimmy Pike is the Willy Wonka…
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InfoWeek: Dell DCS unit racking up cloud sales
There was a good article in Information Week last week with our GM, Forrest Norrod. Forrest talked to Charlie Babcock about the success that Dell’s Data Center Systems unit has had in the cloud space. You should check out the whole article but here are a few bits I’ve pulled out for your reading pleasure:…